2018 mileage: 2884.4
today's ride was, again, brisk (at 39°) but much less troubling, absent yesterday's strong wind. However, a different difficulty more than made up for it.
For variety's sake, I decided to ride a different route today, one I've done only once before (last summer). After riding north on Ann Arbor-Saline Rd. (across the dedicated sidewalk, separated from traffic), I turned right (east) and followed the sidewalk alongside Eisenhower Blvd. for a couple of miles until it joined Packard, and then I stayed with Packard until I came to Platt.
Turning right and following Platt south (all still on the sidewalk), I picked up the trail ("Platt Greenway") where it begins at Lillie Park (Ellsworth Rd.) and followed it all the way down to Michigan Ave. Crossing Michigan, I continued with sidewalk until it ended, then turned into a development of condos and rode that till it ended.
Reversing the process, I headed for home, and was doing fine, until I stopped along the Platt Greenway to take this picture of the boulder marking it.
Clumsily, I bumped to a stop against the boulder. I thought I had hit it lightly and caused no damage ... but shortly after I got started again, I noticed that one of my front gear wheels was badly bent as shown below, and it had to have happened then.
Very fortunately, I was able to ride it the remaining 6 miles home, though it did have a bit of a "limp" with every revolution of the pedals ... and I kept praying, waiting for it to stop working altogether.
Since we currently have no way to transport the trike (as our car is still being repaired from an accident we were in on September 17), I am going to have to do some head scratching as to how i can get it repaired, and worst case I may in fact have to wait until the car is ready, so I can take it to the dealer.
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